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[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simon_lefisch:
Hi,

I was curious if someone could tell me what the left and right arrows are for on either side of the menu/home/back buttons (see attached pic). I press them and nothing happens, and I can't find a description anywhere of what they do. Thanks :D
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bps119:
They are to be used for moving the cursor after typing.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simon_lefisch:
haha wow. dont i feel like an idiot lol. this is my first lg phone. thanks for the reply :)
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeliotta:
I've been wondering the same thing for over a week, don't worry!
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coogrrr94:
I wish those arrows showed up on mine, guess Sprint didn't get that option. Unless it's something you are supposed to enable in settings.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simon_lefisch:
i didnt see anything in settings which is why i was asking.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] player911:
It's only when the keyboard is open. Verizon has this.

-sent from my LG G2 using XDA Premium 4
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] Avi0810:
Would It be possible to put the OS of Galaxy Young (new one) in sgy duos by extracting it by some means??? :p :p

I mean the JellyBean of that phone in our poor sgy duos... :v

Just wanted to know.... :silly:

PS. I'm too lazy to go through 101 pages to check whether someone already posted about this.... :p :p :silly:
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] TheFixItMan:
No - totally different phone - totally different hardware

The reason why we don't have unofficial working ICS or JB is due to broadcom not releasing the drivers for this device

please search before posting - It really isn't that hard and avoids spam threads like this
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shewantsmyduck:
So u just switched from PAC man rom to the latest cm 10.2 nightly and really like it. There is one thing I need help with though. I don't really like the default messaging theme. Is there any way to make it the dark theme? I know cm doesn't make an official theme, but are there and unofficial?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Have you checked our "themes and apps" forum for inverted messaging app? Or Googled it? Loads about. Just make sure you get one for 4.3

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[Motorola Droid 4] joa1450:
Hi, sorry to the board administrator if here should not ask but I'm blocked from ROm forum. The point is that the smartphone recently acquired xt 894 motorola droid 4, this comes with the official rom XT894 Verizon 98.72.18. (Jelly bean 4.1.2): I do not want to dwell on this but I had the xperia MK16i with Gingerbread 2.3.6 rom, and I turned out very well lei aceptable.Ahora within official Verizon rom version is 2.3.4 and 2.3 6 I think, but flashearla not let me, it says that I have the latest installed. you can not go backwards there any way to put this rom.este phone comes by default with the rom. 2.3.6.: Some help pleaseeee ........
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pseudoware:
For the Nexus 5, how can I install an OTA update without losing root?

I believe there are different ways to do this, Can some share what works? With or without a custom recovery installed. Thanks.

(For this who haven't heard, an update is rumored for 11/13, FWIW)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gee2012:
Check if OTA Rootkeeper https://play.google.com/store/search?q=ota rootkeeper is 4.4 compatible or maybe a similar app. If it isn`t rerooting with CF Auto Root will take 2 minutes bro.

-Edit- enable root survival mode after installing a OTA if you use superSU in the superSU settings menu
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elementaldragon:
.... i'm sorry, but i have to ask why bother with the OTA updates if one has a custom recovery installed? can almost bet money on someone having a flashable image here of the stock ROM within hours of one being released.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gee2012:
True, but some are still on the stock rom, recovery and kernel and only want root.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jd1639:
Who cares when it's so easy to root.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pseudoware:
Thanks for the replies. Which N5 sub-forum is the most likely place where someone would post the updated flashable stock image, when available?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jd1639:
Chuck this out in the general forum, it's stikied. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=46290762
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imjimmy:
But wouldn't one lose their data if they used CF-Auto Root again?

When I did the process, it wiped my phone.

Or is it that once the bootloader is unlocked it never wipes the phone again? Meaning it's just a simple matter of running CF auto root after OTA update and nothing else will be changed?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GNRS:
Still have the doubt

I know this information has to be somewhere in this forum, but I have searched and haven't found it. The question is, if I install an update with TWRP, will I lose root as well? If so, is there a way to get it back without wiping everything?

I think the answer is in what the previous post says, that once the bootloader is unlocked, there is no forced wipe anymore. I'm not sure, though.

Actually, the only thing I want is to be able to update to stock unaltered ROMs without losing root (and without a full wipe, of course), I don't care if I have to flash it manually or if I have to install TWRP or if it's ok with OTAs.

Thanks.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Accessories] battle.chasers:
im using my xda mounted on a motorbike using tomtom 5 and need a waterproof case so the xda does die in wet weather..

is there any?
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Accessories] Shrek3k:
try http://www.otterbox.com/ ... seams there even is a choice ... not that cheap but better than loosing your xda.

here is a link to a compatibility chart http://www.otterbox.com/products/pda_cases/fitting_guide/armorchart.pdf

regards

Shrek
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Keddy23:
firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies & try again

Hello. I have Samsung galaxy s2 and i failed to upgrade jellybean. and i want to reinstall firmware 4.1.2 on s2. i watched a thread but was for S4 http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2430466 . just same problem. please help. thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stonedpsycho:
For me kies is still to buggy!

Just download the filmware for your region from here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1544487

or samfilmware.com. Then you can fash it with odin. Also the bonus of not having carrier bloatware pre-installed :D
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Moonie17:
Hey all.

This has been on my mind quite alot since i received my N5, and i think more apps should make use of the screen real estate similar to the launcher and Google Now.

Personally, off the top of my head, I would like to see the below apps make use of the transparent status bar and nav icons:

Chome

Facebook

Hopefully someone at Google is hard at work to enable this for Chrome, as it would be great!!

Let me know what apps you would like to fully utilise this!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackhand1001:
It doesn't make sense in chrome as you wouldn't want portions of the page under the navigation bar.

Google needs to make chrome as smooth as the pre 4.4 AOSP browser already. The pinch to zoom is still horrible in chrome even on the nexus 5. My galaxy nexus is smoother in the aosp browser despite having like a 10th of the power.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] markinsf:
Hi All... I installed CWM Touch (paid version) some time ago on my S3.

Since ROM manager hounds me every time I open it that there is an updated CWM available I finally updated it.

I booted into CWM and it appears my (paid for) CWM touch is now gone and I am back to the primitive text-based CWM.

How do I get my CWM touch back?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
There's a paid version of cwm touch? Never heard that before.

We don't really recommend using rom manager. You can download and flash cwm touch without it from these very forums.

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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] markinsf:
Thanks for your reply. I poked around ROM Manager again and apparently it is a scam (assuming that touch is available free) to get money.

Guess I can't blame anyone but myself for being scammed by these guys.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
To be fair, Koush is one of the most prominent devs for Android and his work on CWM (and by extension ROM manager) has set much of the groundwork for custom recoveries today and his work is still often seen as "the standard" so at least you know your money has gone somewhere good.

You can always get latest recoveries from his website too:

http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] markinsf:
Is there an email I can get in touch with him?

I think it is complete BS that I already paid him once for CWM Touch and now I have to pay him again. I am a tinkerer only to the extent I prefer a custom ROM on my phone and will go through the hassle of doing this whenever I get a new phone.

The last thing I want to do is have to sit down and relearn all the fastboot crap and plug my phone into my PC and go through that stuff or mess around with some cryptic (to me) terminal commands in an emulator to get what is rightfully mine functioning again.

Thank you.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Why do you have to pay him again? I've just given you a link to download from

Unfortunately the last thing you want to so is the first thing you should have done and actually - not wanting to to that is the exact opposite of what being a member of this forum means.

Flashing recovery via odin is easy and there are even cwm flashable zips that you can flash from recovery itself.

But the best bet is to learn flashing via odin as knowing this is knowing how to rescue your phone where as not knowing this, well - means you shouldn't be rooted

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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] markinsf:
THanks dude. Yes, I am familiar with Odin and have used it before. But... I am not someone who uses it every day and have since rebuilt my PC and, thus, will have to install everything rquired (drivers, odin, etc.) to simply get my CWM touch back.

This is my point: I PAID this guy (or donated or whatever) for the touch based CWM so I could simply install it FROM ROM manager. Now, I have to spend my time to do all the above to get it back. That is bull****.

There should be an easy way for me to simply flash CWM touch FROM ROM manager since that is what I did the first time when, again, I paid for it. I have the .img based file sitting on my phone but apparently there is no way for me to flash that to my phone WHILE on my phone - thanks ROM manager!!

I've been rooting phones for 3 years. But speaking candidly, I run two small businesses and my time and love of tinkering with phones is very limited these days.

The fact I paid for a CWM touch... and then updated and am back to non-touch... and there is no way to get back to touch unless I hunt down the instructions about odin, download it again, install drivers, etc. really annoys me.

If you can't see my point if view.. nothing else I can do. I see yours, but I disagree.

Thanks again for your feedback.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
You are the first i heard of paying for CWM Touch or not .
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Now, I know you've already paid for it an I understand your annoyance at the delivery method or lack there of...

However I'd like to throw something else into the mix which may make you happy or the contrary....

Cwm is good. Its a staple. However, it is no longer at the forefront of development.

I would recommend Philz recovery (link in signature) for these reasons

1) cwm based

2) many better features than cwn

3) free

4) can be flashed from recovery

Now it depends on the type of person you are.

Do you want to drive the ford because you paid for it and its your right to not be refused the ford...

Or do you discard the ford and drive the free bmw I offered?

I don't mean to be funny with my analogy. I can see either answer as valid from your perspective. So its a question to ask yourself.

Also, ditch rom manager

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[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Heavy Metal:
Am wondering how well both roam on other cdma carriers outside their own? Like you could with a photon 4G sprint could but not a samsung touch 4G.

Also how does the sprint verion hold out in comparison to verizon?

Can either be used on att tmobile ect?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EGBTMagus:
Verizon version I believe comes unlocked an might work on LTE depending on your area.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Steamer86:
I've ran into an extended network on the MD PA line and tested server in VA. Did not look at the time to check who's tower it was. Result.

Edit: That is a Verizon tower. No idea why banner listed it as extended.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Heavy Metal:
I know sprint and verizon are both cdma but what is their a differnce between their phones? or are they same just have thier own software differences?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] craigbailey1986:
Verizon can be used on any gsm carrier. And that's all of verizon lte devices. Sprints can't I don't believe. All of verizon phones are unlocked. I get h+ speeds when I use mobile or att SIM cards. No lte. I hear though once aws is activated by verizon you can use T-Mobile lte
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] player911:
Verizon is unlocked and will work on Tmobile and ATTs HSPA+ networks. No GSM LTE but great if you're roaming and need a temp solution.

-sent from my LG G2 using XDA Premium 4
[HTC One X] gibbon75:
Good evening folks,

As I have benefited so much from these forums, I hope I can give something back as well.

Recently my HOX developed the dreaded "SIM card not detected" issue, so i thought there has to be a permanent fix rather than taping the SIM card.

So I whipped off the back cover swiftly and a quick inspection revealed why the SIM wasn't detected: look at the pic attached and where the red arrow is pointing at.

When the SIM tray is inserted the bottom of the SIM card pushes against a copper switch thing and closes a circuit(in my photo the tray wasn't fully inserted,so the switch was open),so the phone detects that the SIM is inserted.

In my case the the copper switch wasn't closing properly, as it was bent a little bit. Carefully bending it back solved the issue.

I hope my experience will be beneficial for others out there with the same problem.
[HTC One X] ggrimaldi:
Never had this experience before, but thanks for sharing. It might be useful one day.
[HTC One X] Stefan0vic:
Thanks For sharing
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] killajoe:
Mms and everything works fine?

Sent From The Future
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] budding_developer:
Yep -- everything works great...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] joderme:
My stock TW VZW Galaxy S4 works wonderfully on T-mobile and AT&T out of the box with a few APN settings added.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] budding_developer:
That's curious -- mine would show the APN's with an activated SIM, but no signal whatsoever. This is what I had to do to use anything other than Verizon's CDMA here in the US. I was told that Verizon locks out the US GSM frequencies in their kernel so that you can use GSM outside of the country only.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] joderme:
I wonder if something changed in the later updates. As of MDK/ME7 it was working. I was able to get AT&T HSDPA after putting in the APN data. Voice worked without any of that.

As a part of their 700 Mhz spectrum agreement they had to be sim unlocked. My wife is using a VZW iPhone with an AT&T sim without problem. Did you see any sort of signal when you had the sim in (no data indicators, just signal bars)?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] equake:
Anyone try stock MDK ROM and MJ7 Modem on ATT or Prepaid ATT with LTE active? Is this possible? In service mode I see both Band 17 and Band 20 as new selectables when updated to the MJ7 Modem

My 2 cents
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] istundra:
unlocked out of the box

the sch-i545 is unlocked out of the box. no mod required. the only issue i have with AT&T is caller ID formatting has a + in front. Otherwise once with APN added, it works fine and able to get HSPA+
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] budding_developer:
No -- no bars at all -- just an empty triangle. I would get the occasional flashing small triangle just above the signal indicator (searching for data, I believe), but the bars would never show. About half the time, I would get a red "NO" circle over the indicator, too.

As soon as I flashed Darth Stalker, though, it glommed onto signal & data lickety-split. I'm happy with it now -- in fact, I did a second one and sent it to my girlfriend in New York.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] budding_developer:
Before I left Verizon, while it was still on MI1, I flashed the MJ7 radios -- it virtually killed my transfer speeds. Went from almost 20 mbps to less than 10.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Black6spdZ:
I've been through allot of this trial and error as I've always used GSM services in the past and before my S4 used a Verizon Note 2 with Straight Talk "AT&T". I got lucky and got an MDK and I've helped a friend with an ME7 on same service.. so I've worked with them both. What I found right away was that the Verizon CyanogenMod builds do not work properly with GSM phone service properly.. then I got a tip and made a custom VZW loki'd ATT recovery and started flashing the i337 CM ROMs and everything worked perfect from that point on.. I still have to do some work swapping files around when I want to run custom kernels.. not sure why most of the devs decide to pre-patch the kernel images instead of loki patching them during the recovery flash process as this would make a universal VZW/ATT kernel.. but it works non-the-less. As for the ME7 i545, the stock rom worked as long as you selected global mode but you'd still get the non-verizon sim error. Used SS with the GE 4.2.2 ROM and it works perfect with his GSM service.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] equake:
Is this on LTE or did it drop back down to HSPA+?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] budding_developer:
The radio flashing happened while it was still a CDMA/ Verizon phone, before I flashed Darth Stalker. It really cut my LTE speed. Flashed the original MI1 radios, and I got the speed back.

Now, with Darth Stalker, I am on HSPAP:15 or HSPA:11 but the indicator says 4g -- I get comparable throughput as I did on Verizon.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] equake:
Anyone getting LTE on ATT or prepaid ATT like goPhone, StraightTalk, AIO with the MJ7 radio?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] patt2k:
Guys I actually have un-used AT&T go phone sim card I need it for someone to simply remove activation on iPhone. I put it in my S4 VZW and it showed AT&T as service provide so you don't need to mess with custom roms.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] equake:
Are you getting LTE with the goPhone SIM?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] patt2k:
Don't know never activated it it was only used for few seconds with iPhone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] equake:
If it's a micro sim chances are it's not lte enabled.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] dr.faramroze:
CDMA SIM card

I have a CDMA SIM for 1x and EVDO here in India, we have been using GSM after the unlocking without any extra APN settings. Since the author has mentioned other networks, will this procedure help in using other CDMA SIMs in Verizon S4?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] budding_developer:
No, I think you misunderstood the nature of my original post. It was meant to illustrate how to get away from the high phone bills with Verizon here in the US -- since Verizon locks out all GSM US carriers in the RIL, you MUST replace the Verizon stock ROM in order to be able to use the Verizon phone on any US carrier which uses GSM technology.

You can still use foreign GSM carriers with the stock Verizon firmware, but there is no known method to "open up" the Verizon stock ROM for the use of the phone on US carriers on GSM -- many have tried, and everyone has failed. The only viable option is to completely replace the stock ROM and kernel -- which was the purpose of my "tutorial" here.

If you are in India, and you have a Verizon CDMA S4, you simply need to pop a SIM from a foreign GSM carrier into it in order to use GSM there -- you will NOT be able to use GSM here in the US, though, because of Verizon's lock-out logic contained in the RIL (Radio Interface Layer). I am not sure about the use of the Verizon US CDMA phone on foreign CDMA carriers, though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] equake:
This is untrue with current VZW phones like the GS4, G2, Note 3. I am able to use AIO with no problems. Many have used this phone with Tmo.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] budding_developer:
Gee, thanks equake -- I relate my own personal experience with attempting to use a US AT&T sim card in my own Verizon stock Galaxy S4 phones (as in 2 of them), and how it would show me the APN's for AT&T but would not allow the phone to use the US GSM frequencies to give me an AT&T signal...

then you sit there and call me a friggin' liar

.

The only way I was able to get my Galaxy S4 -- purchased from Verizon here in Medford, Oregon -- to work on the AT&T frequencies was to completely flash over the stock ROM with a ROM that supported AT&T. This was after learning -- through a lot of research and advice from recognized developers (such as jovy23, [mbm] and hashcode) -- that Verizon does indeed lock out the US GSM frequencies in the RIL of their stock ROM, and that if you have the stock ROM running (using the Verizon RIL) you WILL NOT BE ABLE TO USE A UNITED STATES GSM CARRIER WHILE LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES.

Now, I guess it is possible to change the RIL files -- but that will necessitate a lot of other changes to make your phone more compatible wtih the other carrier. So, why would anyone want a "frankenstein" Verizon phone that works marginally on AT&T when they can simply flash a well functioning ROM that works flawlessly with the new carrier?

I would appreciate, in the future, if you would not call me a liar if you have no earthly clue of what you are talking about -- maybe you were able to cobble together a Franken-phone that worked on AT&T, but it is not the phone I am holding, the phone I worked with, or the phone that I use every day of the week which operates as well (or better) than an S4 that I had bought directly from AT&T to begin with.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] joderme:
I think you are the only individual I have heard from that cannot get onto another domestic carrier (except Sprint) with a stock VZW SGS4, GN3, GN2, etc...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] HoodBoogie:
^ agreed.

I used my neighbors tmo sim when I read this just to see. Stock rooted mdk worked just fine with tmo sim
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] asubiyyal:
So you're sayin all for Verizon S4 to work on tombile need just tmobile sim card. No jailbreaking/rooting?

my build is MJ7 it didnt work, I will try it again and play around with settings see if that works. I will post back with my results.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] joshm.1219:
someone's a little butthurt :p
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] asubiyyal:
I did it just had to change it from LTE to Global in settings. However internet is not working, its probably the APN settings. and it always gives this error in status bar that sim is not verizon/unauthorized etc.